June 18, 2007
Among lessons that local businesses have learned and are putting into practice are: Get a plan. Officials with several Midstate companies that do business along the coast say they are offering training and providing educational materials for employees in hurricane-prone …
June 18, 2007
Among lessons that local businesses have learned and are putting into practice are: Get a plan. Officials with several Midstate companies that do business along the coast say they are offering training and providing educational materials for employees in hurricane-prone …
June 12, 2007
It took O’Charley’s regional operations director in Hattiesburg, Miss., most of a week to get in touch with the restaurant chain’s Nashville, Tenn. headquarters after Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast two summers ago. This summer, though, Dan Hunter has …
May 21, 2007
1 Brickstreet Mutual Insurance Co. WV 765,963 2 Texas Mutual Insurance Co. TX 743,095 3 Old American Cty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. TX 491,641 4 SAIF Corp. OR 449,794 5 Universal Property & Casualty Insurance FL 371,755 6 Physicians Reciprocal …
April 23, 2007
Mainers like to boast that they live in the nation’s most heavily forested state, but residents paid a heavy price for that distinction when a deadly nor’easter whipped the coast with winds gusting to 81 mph. Thousands of those trees …
April 19, 2007
Rain continued falling on much of New Hampshire late Wednesday, keeping some schools closed and lengthening the morning commute for drivers detouring around washed-out roads. Thousands of homes and businesses still had no power, and the state’s largest utility, Public …
March 26, 2007
Restaurant chain Cracker Barrel is suing two of its insurance carriers, claiming they did not reimburse the company after it settled sexual and racial harassment claims for $2 million. The lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Nashville …
February 13, 2007
Lebanon, N.J.-based Camford National Insurance Brokers LLC, has opened as a specialty lines wholesale insurance brokerage serving property/casualty agents and brokers both nationally and internationally. Camford National will specialize in serving excess & surplus lines and industries with hard-to-place risks. …
February 12, 2007
$1 million The punitive damages amount to be lodged against State Farm after the federal judge overseeing the Mississippi Katrina claims cases reduced a recent $2.5 million jury award. U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter ruled that a punitive damage award …
February 11, 2007
$1 million The punitive damages amount to be lodged against State Farm after the federal judge overseeing the Mississippi Katrina claims cases reduced a recent $2.5 million jury award. U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter ruled that a punitive damage award …